Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:34:43 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@colorado.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmake 3.74 port setgid kmem Message-ID: <10843.838092883@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:39:12 MDT." <199607221939.NAA21664@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote in message ID <199607221939.NAA21664@rocky.mt.sri.com>: > One of the 'features' of gmake is the ability to 'stop compiling' until > the load average of the machine goes down to an acceptable level, so it > needs permissions to read /dev/mem to determine the load average. > I consider it's setgid-ness along with the 'load average' bit to be a > mis-feature. It most definately is, considering you can read the load ave stuff with sysctl, and not go ANYWHERE NEAR /dev/mem... since it's a port, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to do this. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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